scholarly journals The Role of EU Principles in Criminal Law: is the Principle of Direct Effect Applicable?

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-75
Author(s):  
Edita Gruodytė ◽  
Saulė Milčiuvienė ◽  
Neringa Palionienė
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Direct Effect ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Lisbon Treaty ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Right

Abstract With the enactment of the Lisbon Treaty, EU law gained supremacy over national law in ten areas of criminal law (with the possibility of extension in the future) treated as particularly serious crimes with a cross-border dimension and the right to enact directives. The question arises if and when direct effect is possible in criminal law, taking account of developments and applications of this principle in other areas of EU law. To answer this question, the following tasks are necessary: (1) to discuss the role of principles in criminal law, (2) to define the principle of direct effect through the academic literature and the jurisprudence of the CJEU, (3) to discuss whether directives could have direct effect in criminal law, and (4) to analyze the EU’s impact on Lithuanian national criminal law through an analysis of the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Lithuania.

scholarly journals Features of signs of the crime object provided by article 166 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-198
Author(s):  
Алена Харламова ◽  
Alena Kharlamova ◽  
Юлия Белик ◽  
Yuliya Belik
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Direct Object ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Right

The article is devoted to the problematic theoretical and practical issues of the content of the signs of the object of the crimes under Art. 166 of the Criminal Code. The authors determined the main direct object, revealed the essence of the right of ownership, use and disposal. Marked social relations that can act as an optional direct object. Particular attention is paid in the article to the subject of the crime. Attempts have been made to establish criteria that are crucial for the recognition of any vehicle as the subject of theft. The content of the terms “automobile” and “other vehicle” is disclosed. The analysis of the conformity of the literal interpretation of the criminal law to the interpretation of the law enforcer is carried out. It is summarized that the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation narrows the meaning of the term “other vehicle”, including in it only vehicles for the management of which, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, is granted a special right. The authors provide a list of such vehicles and formulate a conclusion on the advisability of specifying them as the subject of a crime. The narration of the article is accompanied by examples of decisions of courts of various instances in cases of crimes under Art. 166 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

scholarly journals (Just) Give Me A Reason …

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 12-35
Author(s):  
Julia Laffranque
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
European Union Law ◽  
National Courts ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Summary Judgment

Judicial systems often wrestle with whether to sacrifice always presenting thorough judicial reasoning for the sake of an effective leave-to-appeal system. The paper outlines issues of reference to the Luxembourg Court, particularly with regard to Estonian circumstances in light of the ECtHR judgment in Baydar v. the Netherlands. The interplay between EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights in this regard is considered first, along with the importance of giving reasons, courts’ authority, the different roles of domestic and European courts, the duty of referring questions to the CJEU and exemption, consequences of non-referral in EU law, the Strasbourg Court’s role in dialogue between national courts and the CJEU, etc. Examined next are such matters as influences on preliminary references in European Union law, summary reasoning and limits to the reasoning duty (especially with regard to the Ullens de Schooten case of the ECtHR), associated division of competencies between the Strasbourg and Luxembourg courts, and finally the reasoning of the ECtHR itself as good or bad example. The author then considers the Supreme Court of Estonia’s leave-to-appeal system and the national courts’ practice in relation to Baydar, concluding that, while reasoned judgments are important and a right, no right exists for the applicant’s case to be referred by a domestic judge to the Luxembourg Court, though it is vital that summary judgment not be arbitrary / manifestly unreasonable; that Estonian courts have made reasonable use of the preliminary reference procedure before the Luxembourg Court thus far; and that they should articulate well the reasoning for referral/non-referral for litigants. The author proposes that the Estonian Supreme Court explain, exceptionally in one refusal of leave to appeal (cf. the Netherlands), that the general requirements for granting leave to appeal cover also the situation of preliminary questions to the CJEU and C.I.L.F.I.T. arguments of the CJEU. Above all, neither the interplay between EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights nor the role of national courts finding their way in complex legal surroundings should be neglected. 

scholarly journals The Practice of Introducing Restrictions on the Right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly within Administrative Proceedings and the Place of the Judicial Branch of Power in Determining the Admissibility of Such Restrictions

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 162-176
Author(s):  
М. А. Самбор
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Administrative Discretion ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Executive Agencies ◽  
Administrative Proceedings ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legal Understanding

The author has researched the practice of the executive branch of power of Ukraine in establishing a collective (general) ban and restriction of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly under quarantine, as well as the place and role of the judicial branch of power represented by the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court of Ukraine in determining the constitutionality of such restrictions and prohibitions. The powers of the Supreme Court on the constitutional submission to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on the constitutionality of the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine “On quarantine to prevent the spread of acute respiratory disease COVID-19 caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and stages of weakening of anti-epidemic measures” dated from May 20, 2020 No. 392 on the establishment of a ban on the exercise of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly within administrative proceedings during the introduction of quarantine in Ukraine, as well as the justification of such a constitutional submission. It is important to analyze and form a legal understanding of the Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on the unconstitutionality of restricting and prohibiting the exercise of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly during quarantine within administrative proceedings – by adopting the relevant resolution by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which was the result of administrative discretion of the highest agency in the system of executive agencies of Ukraine. In this regard, the study focuses on the motivation and validity of the decision of the agency of constitutional jurisdiction and understanding of those legal and social values that were the basis for the judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine while adopting the decision dated from August 28, 2020 No 10-r/2020.

scholarly journals A QUEBRA DE PARADIGMAS DO SUPREMO TRIBUNAL FEDERAL EM DIREITO À SAÚDE E A AUSÊNCIA DA CONSISTÊNCIA TEÓRICA

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (59) ◽  
pp. 377
Author(s):  
Ferado Rister de Sousa LIMA
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Federal Court ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Public Money ◽  
The Right

RESUMO Objetivo: O estudo objetiva analisar as decisões do Supremo Tribunal Federal, com o propósito de identificar julgamentos proferidos no período de 2010 a 2013, e verificar se houve incorporação de novos conceitos sobre o direito à saúde na sua jurisprudência. Metodologia: A metodologia empregada é a pesquisa bibliográfica, por meio da análise de decisões jurisprudenciais do Supremo Tribunal Federal, delimitada ao período de 2010 a 2013. Resultados: A leitura dos acórdãos denota como direta ou indiretamente estão fundamentados na ausência dos parâmetros. É possível também falar-se em novos parâmetros e não em ausência de critérios. Prefere-se a ausência de critérios ante o entendimento de que os rígidos pontos de partida anteriores moldaram por décadas a atuação judicial e a sua retirada acabou fragilizando a argumentação jurídica, a ponto de não se discutirem questões pertinentes. Os acórdãos dispõem em oferecer esperança como fonte de cura. Uma linguagem muito longínqua da ciência médica e sem qualquer critério de gestão do dinheiro público instaurou-se nos novos julgamentos da Corte. A ausência de consistência jurídica fica também evidenciada com a completa despreocupação em enfrentar a argumentação jurídica oferecida pela política. Tudo está tão conforme os novos conceitos que não se justifica argumentar ou enfrentar as teses jurídicas da Administração Pública. Eis o novo paradigma jurisdicional em direito à saúde. Contribuições: A contribuição central do presente trabalho está na análise de decisões da Suprema Corte a fim de identificar o tratamento dado a questões de direito à saúde.Palavras-chave: Ministros proativos; nova racionalidade; jurisprudência do Supremo Tribunal Federal; papel do Direito. ABSTRACT Objective: The study aims to analyze the decisions of the Supreme Federal Court, with the purpose of identifying judgments handed down from 2010 to 2013, and to verify whether new concepts about the right to health have been incorporated into its jurisprudence. Methodology: The methodology used is bibliographic research, through the analysis of jurisprudential decisions of the Federal Supreme Court, limited to the period from 2010 to 2013. Results: The reading of the judgments shows how directly or indirectly they are based on the absence of parameters. It is also possible to talk about new parameters and not in the absence of criteria. The absence of criteria is preferred due to the understanding that previous rigid starting points have shaped judicial action for decades and its withdrawal has weakened the legal argument, to the point of not discussing relevant issues. Judgments offer hope as a source of healing. A very distant language of medical science and without any criterion for the management of public money was established in the Court's new judgments. The lack of legal consistency is also evidenced by the complete lack of concern in facing the legal arguments offered by the politics. Everything is so in line with the new concepts that there is no reason to argue or face the legal theses of the Public Administration. This is the new jurisdictional paradigm in the right to health. Contributions:The central contribution of the present paper is the analysis of the Supreme Court decisions in order to identify the treatment given to issues of right to  health. Keywords: Proactive ministers; new rationality; jurisprudence of the Supreme Federal Court; role of law.

scholarly journals Examining the Foreseeable: Assisted Suicide as a Herald of Changing Moralities

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joane Martel
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
Medical Assistance ◽  
Moral Regulation ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Criminal Charges

After her intense battle for the decriminalization of assisted suicide in the Supreme Court of Canada, Sue Rodriguez committed suicide with medical assistance in 1994. Following her suicide, government and law representatives remained silent and no criminal charges were ever brought against the person(s) who presumably assisted Ms Rodriguez in her death. This apparent non-intervention of criminal law is examined in view of the useful role that the Rodriguez event may have played in a possible shift in the dominant morality. It is argued that the Rodriguez assisted suicide may have been a useful 'crime' (in the Durkheimian sense) in that it brought to the fore the possibility that social conditions - which made the 'crime' possible - may no longer be in harmony with conventional morality. Similarly to Socrates' crime, the Rodriguez case can be seen as an anticipation of a new morality. It can be analysed as a prelude to alterations, as directly preparing the way for changes in the dominant morality. The role of criminal law as a preferred mode of moral regulation is also examined in relation to the moral demands and expectations that arose during as well as after the judicial saga.

Canons of Evasion in Constitutional Criminal Law

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Dolovich
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
State Action ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

In this chapter, Sharon Dolovich argues that the Supreme Court deploys three “canons of evasion” that undermine core constitutional principles: deference, presumption, and question substitution. The chapter shows how the Court on the one hand affirms basic constitutional principles—such as the right to counsel or the right against cruel and unusual punishment—that courts are to enforce against the state for the protection of individual penal subjects. Yet on the other hand, the doctrinal maneuvers of deference, presumption, and substitute question encourage judges in individual cases to affirm the constitutionality of state action even in the face of seemingly egregious facts. As a result, judicial review delivers almost automatic and uncritical validation of whatever state action produced the challenged conviction, sentence, or punishment. Dolovich identifies troubling questions raised by pervasive use of these canons for the legitimacy of the state’s penal power.

scholarly journals Brexit: la secesión de la Unión Europea entre teoría y realidad

2018 ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Alberto López Basaguren
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
Economic Wealth ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Government ◽  
Article 50 ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Practical Feasibility ◽  
The Eu

El proceso de retirada de la UE (Brexit) plantea cuestiones de gran trascendencia en el Derecho Constitucional británico y en el de la UE, a la luz del artículo 50 TUE. Algunos de los problemas planteados en el Derecho británico se han resuelto por la Supreme Court en el asunto Miller; pero otros siguen abiertos: el papel del Parlamento en la adaptación del derecho de la UE, que el Gobierno pretende desplazar a través de la asunción de una ilimitada delegación de poderes (la cláusula Enrique VIII); o el de los territorios autónomos, que pretenden ser marginados de la recuperación de competencias de la UE. El resultado de las negociaciones puede poner en riesgo la cohesión interna británica, tanto con Escocia como con Irlanda del Norte. Y las condiciones de la retirada y de las relaciones futuras entre ambos —especialmente en caso de falta de acuerdo— pueden afectar gravemente a la estabilidad económica del RU. El derecho formal a la retirada queda, así, profundamente condicionado por su viabilidad práctica.The withdrawal process from the EU (Brexit) raises issues of great significance both in British constitutional law and in EU law, according to Article 50 TEU. Some of the issues raised in the British legal system have been settled by the Supreme Court in the Miller case; but there are others still to be clarified: the role of Parliament in the task of adapting EU law, which the Government is attempting to replace via an unlimited delegation of powers (the Henry VIII clauses); or that of the devolved bodies, which the Government is seeking to exclude from the recovery of powers from the EU. The outcome of the negotiations may jeopardize British internal cohesion, in relation to both Scotland and Northern Ireland. And the circumstances of withdrawal and future relations between the UK and the EU —especially in the case of no deal— could seriously affect the UK’s economic wealth and stability. The formal right to withdrawal is thus deeply conditioned by its practical feasibility.

Compliance with European Environmental Law—Deficiencies and Approaches: The Role of the Court of Justice of the European Union

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Sobotta
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Environmental Considerations

The article discusses the contribution of the ECJ to the reduction of compliance deficiencies with regard to European environmental law. The Court is not a specialised environmental court but the supreme court of the European multilevel legal system. Therefore its contribution is primarily characterised by a concern for effective and uniform application of EU law in general while specific environmental considerations do not figure as prominently.

scholarly journals Legal Domicile of the Parties in a Simple Lawsuit

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Artha Ully
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Legal Counsel ◽  
Legal Representative ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Principle Of Justice ◽  
The Right

<p class="IABSSS">The purpose of this paper is to examine the publication of Perma No. 2 of 2015 concerning Procedures for Settling a Simple Lawsuit. Perma can be seen as one solution to meet the needs of the community for dispute resolution procedures quickly and simply. The substance contained in Perma is to uphold the principle of justice which is simple, fast, and low cost. Therefore, the requirements in a simple lawsuit are limited in nature, where if one of the conditions is not fulfilled, the case cannot be resolved through the Simple Lawsuit Procedure in accordance with Perma No. 2 of 2015. The results of the author's research, the Perma substance is needed to be improved, because the limitation of jurisdiction is only one legal domicile and the use of legal counsel in a simple claim is something that needs to be regulated in more detail, in the future to further encourage the use of a simple claim mechanism as a instrument of applying the principle of justice that is simple, fast, and low cost in Indonesia. The Supreme Court needs to regulate in more detail the role of the attorney in simple lawsuits, such as regulating the right to speak a legal representative and the problem of the absence of the principal in the event that the party is a legal entity; Electronic calling via Sms, whasapp and email can be an alternative used in the calling process, so Perma should regulate in more detail the terms and conditions of the validity of the information technology-based calling.</p><p class="IABSSS"> </p><p class="IABSSS">Tujuan penulisan ini adalah  untuk menelaah penerbitan Perma No. 2 Tahun 2015 tentang Tata Cara Penyelesaian Gugatan Sederhana. Perma itu dapat dipandang sebagai salah satu solusi untuk memenuhi kebutuhan masyarakat terhadap prosedur penyelesaian sengketa dengan cepat dan sederhana. Substansi yang terkandung di dalam Perma yaitu menjunjung asas peradilan yang sederhana, cepat, dan berbiaya ringan. Oleh karena ini persyaratan dalam gugatan sederhana bersifat limitatif, di mana bila salah satu syarat tidak dipenuhi, maka perkara tersebut tidak dapat diselesaikan  melalui Prosedur Gugatan Sederhana sesuai PERMA No. 2 Tahun 2015. Hasil penelitian penulis, substansi Perma diperlukan pernyempurnaan, karena pembatasan yurisdiksi hanya pada satu domisili hukum dan penggunaan kuasa hukum dalam gugatan sederhana merupakan hal yang perlu diatur secara lebih rinci, di masa yang akan datang untuk lebih mendorong penggunaan mekanisme gugatan sederhana sebagai instrumen penerapan asas peradilan yang sederhana, cepat, dan berbiaya ringan di Indonesia. Mahkamah Agung perlu mengatur lebih rinci peran kuasa hukum dalam gugatan sederhana, seperti mengatur hak bicara kuasa hukum dan masalah ketidakhadiran prinsipal dalam hal pihak adalah badan hukum; Pemanggilan secara elektronik melalui SMS, WA dan email dapat menjadi alternatif yang digunakan dalam proses pemanggilan, maka PERMA sebaiknya mengatur secara lebih rinci syarat dan ketentuan keabsahan pemanggilan berbasis teknologi informasi tersebut.</p><p> </p>

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